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                <p>Scrum Masters can run their processes more easily and teams can work more effectively
                    by using the artifacts that are provided with the GovDev for TFS 2010 v1.0 process template. These artifacts include work items, reports, workbooks,
                    and dashboards. </p>
                <p>Teams can use work items to track information, analyze progress, and make decisions.
                    The team can use built-in and custom reports that are based on the database for
                    tracking work items or the SQL Server Analysis Services database to answer questions
                    such as the following metrics:</p>
                <ul>
                    <li>
                        <p>Are we on track?</p>
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                    <li>
                        <p>Is our bug debt growing or shrinking?</p>
                    </li>
                    <li>
                        <p>What is our burn rate?</p>
                    </li>
                </ul>
                <p>Teams can use workbooks to help maintain the product backlog, plan an iteration or
                    sprint, and prioritize bugs. Dashboards and reports display critical information
                    and support transparency and real-time metrics. Dashboards help the team visualize
                    project information, which is especially useful for driving an iteration and conducting
                    retrospectives. Dashboards also provide access to many features and functions that
                    team members use every day. </p>
                <p>Team members can access artifacts either from the team project node in Team Explorer
                    or the team project portal. </p>
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                                        <p><a href="#Overview">Overview</a></p>
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                                        <p><a href="#ProductBacklogMaintenance">Requirements and&nbsp;Backlog Maintenance</a></p>
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                                        <p><a href="#SprintBacklogMaintenance">Iteration Backlog Maintenance</a></p>
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                                        <p><a href="#BugBacklogManagement">Bug Backlog Management</a></p>
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                                        <p><a href="#ProjectManagement">Project Management</a></p>
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                                        <p><a href="#ReleasePlanning">Release Planning</a></p>
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                                        <p><a href="#TeamCollaboration">Team Collaboration</a></p>
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                                        <p><a href="#TeamSystemIntegration">Integration</a></p>
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                                        <p><a href="#Customization">Customization</a></p>
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                                <p><span class="label">Default artifact structure in Team Explorer</span> </p>
                                <img alt="GovDev team project artifact structure" src="../art/ProcGuid_Artifacts.png" />
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                                <p><span class="label">Create and update use cases, tasks, bugs, and other types
                                    of work items</span>. The team tracks work by creating and managing work items.
                                    Each type of work item is based on a template that includes data fields, workflow
                                    states, transition logic, and a work item form. Team members can create work items
                                    that are based on only those types of work items that are defined for the team project.
                                </p>
                                <p>The process template for GovDev for TFS 2010 v1.0 defines the following
                                    types of work items: use cases, tasks, bugs, issues, test cases, and shared steps.
                                    each type of work item is defined by an XML file that project administrators can
                                    completely customize.</p>
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                                    <li>
                                        <p><span sdata="link"><a href="WorkItemsandWorkflowGovDev.html">Work Items and Workflow
                                            (GovDev)</a></span> </p>
                                    </li>
                                    <li>
                                        <p><span sdata="link"><a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/558d9b2a-b71a-4f26-8ac1-a0fde70b727d">
                                            Customizing Project Tracking Data, Forms, Workflow, and Other Objects</a></span> 
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                                <p><span class="label">List use cases, tasks, bugs, and other work items by using
                                    queries</span>. Each query defines a set of filter criteria that team members can
                                    run to find specific groups of work items, such as open use cases or active bugs.
                                    Team members can find predefined queries in the Team Queries folder.</p>
                                <p>The process template for GovDev for TFS 2010 v1.0 defines 15 queries.
                                    Each team member can create and store queries that are just for themselves or that
                                    they share with the team. </p>
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                                    <li>
                                        <p><span sdata="link"><a href="TeamQueriesGovDev.html">Team Queries (GovDev)</a></span> 
                                        </p>
                                    </li>
                                    <li>
                                        <p><span sdata="link"><a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/c9b6d41c-47ce-4a29-8a1c-ba44d8c4809a">
                                            Finding Bugs, Tasks, and Other Work Items</a></span> </p>
                                    </li>
                                    <li>
                                        <p><span sdata="link"><a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/814c2dca-cf8f-44bf-bba1-a5d8e293fc05">
                                            Query Fields, Operators, Values, and Variables</a></span> </p>
                                    </li>
                                    <li>
                                        <p><span sdata="link"><a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/a48f7763-96bd-4558-8f1c-7e8aa5cebe55">
                                            Sharing Work Items and Queries with Team Members</a></span> </p>
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                                <p><span class="label">Plan, manage, balance, and track workload for an iteration by
                                    using workbooks</span>. Product owners can use workbooks to maintain the product
                                    backlog, plan an iteration, triage bugs, and track issues. For example, product
                                    owners can assign use cases, tasks, bugs, and issues to specific iterations by
                                    using workbooks. </p>
                                <p>The process template for GovDev for TFS 2010 v1.0 defines four types
                                    of workbooks that you can customize. Each workbook, an Office Excel .xlsx file or
                                    macro-enabled .xlsm file, displays a predefined query in one worksheet and additional
                                    worksheets for calculating project data. </p>
                            </td>
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                                <ul>
                                    <li>
                                        <p><span sdata="link"><a href="WorkbooksGovDev.html">Workbooks (GovDev)</a></span> 
                                        </p>
                                    </li>
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                                <p><span class="label">Use dashboards to review progress and quickly access assigned
                                    work</span>. Team members can use dashboards to quickly find important information
                                    about the team project. Dashboards show project data, support investigation, and
                                    help the team perform common tasks more quickly.</p>
                                <p>Dashboards display charts and graphs that are defined by an Office Excel report,
                                    lists and controls in Team Web Access, or other objects on a SharePoint site. To
                                    access dashboards, the team project must be configured for a project portal and
                                    a SharePoint site. </p>
                                <p>The process template for GovDev for TFS 2010 v1.0 defines several
                                    dashboards that project administrators can completely customize. </p>
                            </td>
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                                <ul>
                                    <li>
                                        <p><span sdata="link"><a href="DashboardsGovDev.html">Dashboards (GovDev)</a></span> 
                                        </p>
                                    </li>
                                </ul>
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                                <p><span class="label">View and track progress by using reports in Excel</span>. Reports
                                    in Excel support two purposes. The first purpose is to present visual data within
                                    the dashboards. The second purpose is to support reviewing and tracking progress
                                    for your project. </p>
                                <p>The process template for GovDev for TFS 2010 v1.0 defines 17 reports
                                    in Excel. Each report corresponds to an Office Excel workbook (.xlsx file) that
                                    displays information that is stored in the Analysis Services database for the team
                                    project. You can modify default reports in Excel and create custom reports by using
                                    the Excel template that the process template provides.</p>
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                                <ul>
                                    <li>
                                        <p><span sdata="link"><a href="ExcelReportsGovDev.html">Excel Reports (GovDev)</a></span> 
                                        </p>
                                    </li>
                                    <li>
                                        <p><span sdata="link"><a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/ae021d09-18d9-4fb0-bc06-fd6667a0b122">
                                            Create a Report in Microsoft Excel for Visual Studio ALM</a></span> </p>
                                    </li>
                                    <li>
                                        <p><span sdata="link"><a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/0e1e3343-434b-4e54-8c0e-d75df296e646">
                                            Edit a Report in Microsoft Excel for Visual Studio ALM</a></span> </p>
                                    </li>
                                </ul>
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                                <p><span class="label">Review, analyze, and track progress by using Reporting Services
                                    </span>. Team members can analyze the status and progress of their project by using
                                    the reports in Reporting Services. These reports help answer questions about the
                                    state of the team project by aggregating metrics from work items, version control,
                                    test results, and builds.</p>
                                <p>Before your team can access
                                    <img alt="Report" src="../art/Icon_reportTE.gif" />
                                    <span class="ui">Reports</span>, the team project collection where your team project
                                    is stored must be provisioned with Reporting Services and Analysis Services.
                                </p>
                                <p>The process template for GovDev for TFS 2010 v1.0 defines 13 reports.
                                    Each report is defined by a Report Definition Language (RDL) file that accesses
                                    information from the Analysis Services database for the team project. Project administrators
                                    can completely customize these reports. </p>
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                                    <li>
                                        <p><span sdata="link"><a href="ReportsGovDev.html">Reports (GovDev)</a></span> </p>
                                    </li>
                                    <li>
                                        <p><span sdata="link"><a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/f382806c-9509-45bf-b175-51a2c853621a">
                                            View, Organize, and Configure Reports Using Report Manager for Visual Studio ALM
                                            </a></span> </p>
                                    </li>
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                                <p><span class="label">Capture and track use cases</span>. Product owners can capture
                                    each feature, function, or requirement for a product as a use case. Use cases
                                    support assigning story points, ranking, capturing customer requirements
                                    and test criteria, and assigning the item to a specific iteration. </p>
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                                        <p><span sdata="link"><a href="UseCaseGovDev.html">Use Case (GovDev)</a></span> </p>
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                                <p><span class="label">Create and edit multiple use cases as a batch</span>. Product
                                    owners can use the Product Backlog workbook to build the product backlog and balance
                                    use cases across iterations. </p>
                            </td>
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                                <ul>
                                    <li>
                                        <p><span sdata="link"><a href="UseCasePlanningWorkbook.html">Use Case Planning Workbook
                                            </a></span> </p>
                                    </li>
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                                <p><span class="label">Capture, track, and link other types of work</span>. Team members
                                    can also capture tasks, issues, and other types of work and link them to use cases
                                    or each other. </p>
                                <p>Project administrators can also create or customize each type of work item by adding
                                    fields, changing the workflow, or modifying the form. For more information, see
                                    <a href="#Customization">Customization</a>.</p>
                            </td>
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                                        <p><span sdata="link"><a href="TaskGovDev.html">Task (GovDev)</a></span> </p>
                                    </li>
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                                        <p><span sdata="link"><a href="BugGovDev.html">Bug (GovDev)</a></span> </p>
                                    </li>
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                                        <p><span sdata="link"><a href="IssueGovDev.html">Issue (GovDev)</a></span> </p>
                                    </li>
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                                        <p><span sdata="link"><a href="TestCaseGovDev.html">Test Case (GovDev)</a></span> </p>
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                                <p><span class="label">View hierarchical tree structures of requirements, use cases and tasks</span>. 
                                    Product owners can create many small, focused use cases that, taken together,
                                    implement several larger requirements. Team members can display a tree view of requirements, use case and tasks that are linked by parent-child relationships.</p>
                                <p>Team members can view and modify tree hierarchies of work items through either Office
                                    Excel or Team Explorer. In Team Explorer, team members can change the tree structure
                                    by dragging items within the tree view.</p>
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                                    <li>
                                        <p><span sdata="link"><a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/744aed59-6c89-426a-af1e-c1b5b653de3f">
                                            View and Modify Work Items in a Tree View</a></span> </p>
                                    </li>
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                                <p><span class="label">Monitor progress and status of requirements</span>. By using
                                    the Requirements Progress Report and Requirements Traceability Report, team members can review the level of effort that they
                                    have spent implementing Requirements.
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                                    Product owners can review these reports daily or weekly to monitor the progress of
                                    the team during an iteration.</p>
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                                        <p><span sdata="link"><a href="RequirementsProgressReportGovDev.html">Requirements Progress Report
                                            (GovDev)</a></span> </p>
                                    </li>
                                    <li>
                                        <p><span sdata="link"><a href="RequirementsTraceabilityReportGovDev.html">
                                            Requirements Traceability Report
                                            (GovDev)</a></span> </p>
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                <img id="sectionToggle2" class="toggle" name="toggleSwitch" src="../icons/collapse_all.gif" />Iteration
                Backlog Maintenance</span> </h1>
            <div id="sectionSection2" class="section" name="collapseableSection" style="">
                <div class="caption"></div>
                <div class="tableSection">
                    <table width="50%" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="5" frame="lhs">
                        <tr>
                            <th>
                                <p>Task</p>
                            </th>
                            <th>
                                <p>Related topics</p>
                            </th>
                        </tr>
                        <tr>
                            <td>
                                <p><span class="label">Quickly access Tasks and other daily functions for each team
                                    member</span>. Team members can use the My dashboard to review and open the tasks,
                                    bugs, and test cases that are assigned to them.</p>
                            </td>
                            <td>
                                <ul>
                                    <li>
                                        <p><span sdata="link"><a href="MyDashboardGovDev.html">My Dashboard (GovDev)</a></span> 
                                        </p>
                                    </li>
                                </ul>
                            </td>
                        </tr>
                        <tr>
                            <td>
                                <p><span class="label">Create and edit items in the iteration backlog as a batch</span>.  
                                    Product owners can use the Iteration Task Backlog workbook to plan and track the progress
                                    of work for a specific iteration. </p>
                            </td>
                            <td>
                                <ul>
                                    <li>
                                        <p><span sdata="link"><a href="IterationBacklogWorkbook.html">Iteration Task Backlog Workbook
                                            </a></span> </p>
                                    </li>
                                </ul>
                            </td>
                        </tr>
                        <tr>
                            <td>
                                <p><span class="label">View hierarchical tree structures of Use Cases and Tasks</span>.  
                                    Team members can create a link between each task that they must complete and the
                                    use case that it helps implement. by creating these links, team members can track
                                    work hours for each use case. </p>
                                <p>Team members can modify tree hierarchies of work items, either through Office Excel
                                    or Team Explorer. In Team Explorer, you can change the tree structure by dragging
                                    items in the tree view.</p>
                            </td>
                            <td>
                                <ul>
                                    <li>
                                        <p><a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/744aed59-6c89-426a-af1e-c1b5b653de3f">
                                            <span sdata="link">View and Modify Work Items in a Tree View</mshelp:link></span> </p>
                                    </li>
                                    </ul>
                            </td>
                        </tr>
                        <tr>
                            <td>
                                <p><span class="label">Monitor the iteration progress and status</span>. Product owners
                                    and team members can use the Progress dashboard and reports to view their progress.
                                    These reports help teams determine whether they are on track, how much value they
                                    are delivering by closing use cases, and how closely the iteration execution
                                    matched their iteration plan. </p>
                            </td>
                            <td>
                                <ul>
                                    <li>
                                        <p><span sdata="link"><a href="ProgressDashboardGovDev.html">Progress Dashboard 
                                            (GovDev)
                                            </a></span> </p>
                                    </li>
                                    <li>
                                        <p><span sdata="link"><a href="ProjectDashboardGovDev.html">Project Dashboard (GovDev)
                                            </a></span> </p>
                                    </li>
                                    <li>
                                        <p><span sdata="link"><a href="BurndownandBurnRateReportGovDev.html">Burndown and Burn
                                            Rate Report (GovDev)</a></span> </p>
                                    </li>
                                    <li>
                                        <p><span sdata="link"><a href="RemainingWorkReport.html">Remaining Work Report</a></span> 
                                        </p>
                                    </li>
                                </ul>
                            </td>
                        </tr>
                        <tr>
                            <td>
                                <p><span class="label">Generate custom views of reports</span>. Team members can generate
                                    different views of reports by using built-in filter functions. For example, a team
                                    member can change the display of the Burndown and Burn Rate report by filtering
                                    the set of use cases, bugs, and tasks that the report displays.</p>
                                <p>In addition, team members can customize each dashboard by changing the filter criteria
                                    or fields of the Excel reports that appear in the dashboards. </p>
                            </td>
                            <td>
                                <ul>
                                    <li>
                                        <p>See each report for filter details: </p>
                                        <ul>
                                            <li>
                                                <p><span sdata="link"><a href="ReportsGovDev.html">Reports (GovDev)</a></span> </p>
                                            </li>
                                            <li>
                                                <p><span sdata="link"><a href="ExcelReportsGovDev.html">Excel Reports (GovDev)</a></span> 
                                                </p>
                                            </li>
                                        </ul>
                                    </li>
                                </ul>
                            </td>
                        </tr>
                    </table>
                </div>
            </div>
            <a name="BugBacklogManagement" />
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                onkeypress="ExpandCollapse_CheckKey(sectionToggle3, event)" tabindex="0">
                <img id="sectionToggle3" class="toggle" name="toggleSwitch" src="../icons/collapse_all.gif" />Bug
                Backlog Management</span> </h1>
            <div id="sectionSection3" class="section" name="collapseableSection" style="">
                <div class="caption"></div>
                <div class="tableSection">
                    <table width="50%" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="5" frame="lhs">
                        <tr>
                            <th>
                                <p>Task</p>
                            </th>
                            <th>
                                <p>Related topics</p>
                            </th>
                        </tr>
                        <tr>
                            <td>
                                <p><span class="label">Quickly access "My" active Bugs</span>. By using the My dashboard,
                                    individual team members can review bugs that are assigned to them. </p>
                            </td>
                            <td>
                                <ul>
                                    <li>
                                        <p><span sdata="link"><a href="MyDashboardGovDev.html">My Dashboard (GovDev)</a></span> 
                                        </p>
                                    </li>
                                </ul>
                            </td>
                        </tr>
                        <tr>
                            <td>
                                <p><span class="label">Review and triage the bug backlog</span>. By using the Triage
                                    workbook, the team can rank, prioritize, and assign bugs to work on during an iteration.
                                </p>
                            </td>
                            <td>
                                <ul>
                                    <li>
                                        <p><span sdata="link"><a href="TriageWorkbook.html">Triage Workbook</a></span> </p>
                                    </li>
                                </ul>
                            </td>
                        </tr>
                        <tr>
                            <td>
                                <p><span class="label">Monitor bug burndown, trends, and distribution by priority and
                                    assignment</span>. By using the bug dashboards and reports, the team can track its
                                    progress toward finding and resolving code defects. </p>
                            </td>
                            <td>
                                <ul>
                                    <li>
                                        <p><span sdata="link"><a href="BugsDashboard.html">Bugs Dashboard</a></span> </p>
                                    </li>
                                    <li>
                                        <p><span sdata="link"><a href="BugStatusReport.html">Bug Status Report</a></span> 
                                        </p>
                                    </li>
                                    <li>
                                        <p><span sdata="link"><a href="BugTrendsReport.html">Bug Trends Report</a></span> 
                                        </p>
                                    </li>
                                </ul>
                            </td>
                        </tr>
                        <tr>
                            <td>
                                <p><span class="label">Monitor the fault feedback ratio</span>. By using the Reactivations
                                    report, the team can determine how effectively it is fixing bugs. Reactivations
                                    generally refer to bugs that have been resolved or closed prematurely and then reopened.
                                    The team can use the Reactivations report to show either bugs or use cases that
                                    have been reactivated.</p>
                            </td>
                            <td>
                                <ul>
                                    <li>
                                        <p><span sdata="link"><a href="ReactivationsReport.html">Reactivations Report</a></span> 
                                        </p>
                                    </li>
                                </ul>
                            </td>
                        </tr>
                        <tr>
                            <td>
                                <p><span class="label">Submit Bugs that automatically contain test case and test environment
                                    information</span>. Testers who use Microsoft Test Manager can submit bugs that
                                    automatically contain information about the test case and test environment that
                                    was run, in addition to the specific test step in which the tester discovered a
                                    code defect. If a tester uses Microsoft Test Manager to create a bug, it is automatically
                                    linked to the test case that was run when the bug was found. </p>
                            </td>
                            <td>
                                <ul>
                                    <li>
                                        <p><span sdata="link"><a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/3884cbe6-95f7-434a-b02a-e498f084ce63">
                                            How to: Submit a Bug Using Microsoft Test Manager</a></span> </p>
                                    </li>
                                    <li>
                                        <p><span sdata="link"><a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/944ae9af-5a55-4c58-b520-0108c03b3564">
                                            Including Diagnostic Trace Data with Bugs that are Difficult to Reproduce</a></span> 
                                        </p>
                                    </li>
                                </ul>
                            </td>
                        </tr>
                    </table>
                </div>
            </div>
            <a name="ProjectManagement" />
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                onkeypress="ExpandCollapse_CheckKey(sectionToggle4, event)" tabindex="0">
                <img id="sectionToggle4" class="toggle" name="toggleSwitch" src="../icons/collapse_all.gif" />Project
                Management</span> </h1>
            <div id="sectionSection4" class="section" name="collapseableSection" style="">
                <div class="caption"></div>
                <div class="tableSection">
                    <table width="50%" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="5" frame="lhs">
                        <tr>
                            <th>
                                <p>Task</p>
                            </th>
                            <th>
                                <p>Related topics</p>
                            </th>
                        </tr>
                        <tr>
                            <td>
                                <p><span class="label">Plan, schedule, and manage tasks and resources</span>. Product
                                    owners can plan projects, schedule tasks, assign resources, and track changes by
                                    using Office Project. Office Project helps simplify scheduling by providing the
                                    Team Foundation Gantt View and the Team Foundation Task Sheet View.</p>
                                <p>In addition, data integration between Office Project and Team Foundation maintains
                                    predecessor-successor and subordinate relationships in both the project plan and
                                    the database for tracking work items. </p>
                            </td>
                            <td>
                                <ul>
                                    <li>
                                        <p><span sdata="link"><a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/be5cef4f-755f-4ffe-8dd7-876d1e02c330">
                                            Scheduling Tasks and Assigning Resources Using Microsoft Project</a></span> </p>
                                    </li>
                                    <li>
                                        <p><span sdata="link"><a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/95ad5102-e346-4597-8d35-bf84cb692652">
                                            Quick Tips and Operational Differences when Tracking Tasks Using Microsoft Project
                                            and Team Foundation</a></span> </p>
                                    </li>
                                </ul>
                            </td>
                        </tr>
                        <tr>
                            <td>
                                <p><span class="label">Monitor task allocation to team members</span>. In the Progress
                                    dashboard and reports, team members can view the workload that is assigned to themselves
                                    and to other team members. </p>
                            </td>
                            <td>
                                <ul>
                                    <li>
                                        <p><span sdata="link"><a href="ProgressDashboardGovDev.html">Progress Dashboard (GovDev)
                                            </a></span> </p>
                                    </li>
                                    <li>
                                        <p><span sdata="link"><a href="BurndownandBurnRateReportGovDev.html">Burndown and Burn
                                            Rate Report (GovDev)</a></span> </p>
                                    </li>
                                </ul>
                            </td>
                        </tr>
                        <tr>
                            <td>
                                <p><span class="label">Manage and monitor issues and impediments to team progress</span>.  
                                    Product owners can track known or potential problems, impediments, or risks to
                                    their project by using the Issues workbook to define, review, rank, and manage issues.
                                </p>
                            </td>
                            <td>
                                <ul>
                                    <li>
                                        <p><span sdata="link"><a href="IssueGovDev.html">Issue (GovDev)</a></span> </p>
                                    </li>
                                    <li>
                                        <p><span sdata="link"><a href="IssuesWorkbook.html">Issues Workbook</a></span> </p>
                                    </li>
                                </ul>
                            </td>
                        </tr>
                        <tr>
                            <td>
                                <p><span class="label">Trace the implementation of requirements.</span> Determine the 
                                    status of requirements and trace their progress down to the implementation code.</p>
                            </td>
                            <td>
                                <ul>
                                    <li>
                                        <p><span sdata="link"><a href="RequirementsTraceabilityReportGovDev.html">
                                            Requirements Traceability
                                            Report (GovDev)</a></span> </p>
                                    </li>
                                </ul>
                            </td>
                        </tr>
                        <tr>
                            <td>
                                <p><span class="label">Determine team member&#39;s contribution to project success.</span>&nbsp; 
                                    View the hours and code churn of individual team members.</p>
                            </td>
                            <td>
                                <ul>
                                    <li>
                                        <p><span sdata="link"><a href="ContributionReportGovDev.html">Team Contribution
                                            Report (GovDev)</a></span> </p>
                                    </li>
                                </ul>
                            </td>
                        </tr>
                        <tr>
                            <td>
                                <p><span class="label">Determine the team's average burn rate or velocity.</span> By viewing the information in
                                    the Status on All Iterations report, product owners can gain information toward
                                    calculating the team's average burn rate.</p>
                            </td>
                            <td>
                                <ul>
                                    <li>
                                        <p><span sdata="link"><a href="StatusonAllIterationsReport.html">Status on All Iterations
                                            Report</a></span> </p>
                                    </li>
                                </ul>
                            </td>
                        </tr>
                    </table>
                </div>
            </div>
            <a name="ReleasePlanning" />
            <h1 class="heading"><span onclick="ExpandCollapse(sectionToggle5)" style="cursor: default;"
                onkeypress="ExpandCollapse_CheckKey(sectionToggle5, event)" tabindex="0">
                <img id="sectionToggle5" class="toggle" name="toggleSwitch" src="../icons/collapse_all.gif" />Release
                Planning</span> </h1>
            <div id="sectionSection5" class="section" name="collapseableSection" style="">
                <div class="caption"></div>
                <div class="tableSection">
                    <table width="50%" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="5" frame="lhs">
                        <tr>
                            <th>
                                <p>Task</p>
                            </th>
                            <th>
                                <p>Related topics</p>
                            </th>
                        </tr>
                        <tr>
                            <td>
                                <p><span class="label">Monitor team progress and team capacity</span>. During an iteration,
                                    the team can review the rate of its progress by viewing the burndown of either Tasks
                                    or other work items. </p>
                                <p>Burndown shows the trend of completed and remaining work over a specified time period.
                                    Burn rate provides calculations of the completed and required rate of work based
                                    on the specified time period.</p>
                            </td>
                            <td>
                                <ul>
                                    <li>
                                        <p><span sdata="link"><a href="ProgressDashboardGovDev.html">Progress Dashboard (GovDev)
                                            </a></span> </p>
                                    </li>
                                    <li>
                                        <p><span sdata="link"><a href="RemainingWorkReport.html">Remaining Work Report</a></span> 
                                        </p>
                                    </li>
                                </ul>
                            </td>
                        </tr>
                        <tr>
                            <td>
                                <p><span class="label">Perform what-if planning scenarios</span>. Product owners can
                                    use the Use Case Planning and Iteration Task Backlog workbooks to balance workload across
                                    several iterations and, within an iteration, across the team. By using these workbooks,
                                    product owners can determine the team capacity, team velocity, adjust work based
                                    on overallocated or underallocated capacity for both the team and its members, and
                                    perform what-if analysis by changing iteration assignments, lengthening or shortening
                                    the iteration, and accounting for holidays and other planned work interruptions.
                                </p>
                                <p>By using the Iteration Task Backlog workbook, product owners set each team member's individual
                                    capacity per iteration, including their days off. </p>
                            </td>
                            <td>
                                <ul>
                                    <li>
                                        <p><span sdata="link"><a href="UseCasePlanningWorkbook.html">Use Case Planning Workbook
                                            </a></span> </p>
                                    </li>
                                    <li>
                                        <p><span sdata="link"><a href="IterationBacklogWorkbook.html">Iteration Task Backlog Workbook
                                            </a></span> </p>
                                    </li>
                                </ul>
                            </td>
                        </tr>
                        <tr>
                            <td>
                                <p><span class="label">Manage cross-group dependencies</span>. Product owners can define
                                    dependencies for a task or feature that another team or group owns, track and annotate
                                    those dependencies, build relationships with another project group, and track how
                                    dependencies change over time.</p>
                            </td>
                            <td>
                                <ul>
                                    <li>
                                        <p><span sdata="link"><a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/7001c91d-2c44-49f9-9504-61e3ba1be042">
                                            What's New in Tracking Work Items</a></span> </p>
                                    </li>
                                </ul>
                            </td>
                        </tr>
                        <tr>
                            <td>
                                <p><span class="label">Monitor product quality</span>. The team can track indicators
                                    of overall product quality by using the Quality dashboard. Also, the team can use
                                    build reports to track the quality and success of the team's builds over time.
                                </p>
                            </td>
                            <td>
                                <ul>
                                    <li>
                                        <p><span sdata="link"><a href="QualityDashboardGovDev.html">Quality Dashboard (GovDev)
                                            </a></span> </p>
                                    </li>
                                    <li>
                                        <p><span sdata="link"><a href="BuildSuccessOverTimeReport.html">Build Success Over Time
                                            Report</a></span> </p>
                                    </li>
                                    <li>
                                        <p><span sdata="link"><a href="BuildQualityIndicatorsReport.html">Build Quality Indicators
                                            Report</a></span> </p>
                                    </li>
                                </ul>
                            </td>
                        </tr>
                        <tr>
                            <td>
                                <p><span class="label">Report progress to upper management</span>. Product owners can
                                    use several dashboards and reports to communicate status and progress and customize
                                    reports to display the exact details that the team and management require. </p>
                                <p>For example, the Quality dashboard provides an overview of progress in the test,
                                    development, and build areas. The Requirements Traceability Report tracks how far each 
                                    requirement, use case, task, etc., has been implemented and tested. The test reports track the team's progress
                                    toward developing test cases and show how well they cover the use cases.</p>
                            </td>
                            <td>
                                <ul>
                                    <li>
                                        <p><span sdata="link"><a href="QualityDashboardGovDev.html">Quality Dashboard (GovDev)
                                            </a></span> </p>
                                    </li>
                                    <li>
                                        <p><span sdata="link"><a href="RequirementsTraceabilityReportGovDev.html">
                                            Requirements Traceability Report
                                            (GovDev)</a></span> </p>
                                    </li>
                                    <li>
                                        <p><span sdata="link"><a href="TestCaseReadinessReport.html">Test Case Readiness Report
                                            </a></span> </p>
                                    </li>
                                    <li>
                                        <p><span sdata="link"><a href="TestPlanProgressReport.html">Test Plan Progress Report
                                            </a></span> </p>
                                    </li>
                                </ul>
                            </td>
                        </tr>
                        <tr>
                            <td>
                                <p><span class="label">Support for multiple means of access</span>. Team members can
                                    view dashboards and reports through a Web interface and export Reporting Services
                                    reports into several formats, which include Excel, Adobe Acrobat (.pdf), and Word.
                                </p>
                            </td>
                            <td>
                                <p>On the Microsoft Web site:</p>
                                <ul>
                                    <li>
                                        <p><a href="http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=178711">Exporting Reports</a>
                                        </p>
                                    </li>
                                </ul>
                            </td>
                        </tr>
                    </table>
                </div>
            </div>
            <a name="TeamCollaboration" />
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                onkeypress="ExpandCollapse_CheckKey(sectionToggle6, event)" tabindex="0">
                <img id="sectionToggle6" class="toggle" name="toggleSwitch" src="../icons/collapse_all.gif" />Team
                Collaboration</span> </h1>
            <div id="sectionSection6" class="section" name="collapseableSection" style="">
                <div class="caption"></div>
                <div class="tableSection">
                    <table width="50%" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="5" frame="lhs">
                        <tr>
                            <th>
                                <p>Task</p>
                            </th>
                            <th>
                                <p>Related topics</p>
                            </th>
                        </tr>
                        <tr>
                            <td>
                                <p><span class="label">Manage work handoffs and track work status</span>. By using work
                                    items to maintain information in the Team Foundation database, team members can
                                    ensure that no information or work is lost when they hand off tasks to each other.
                                    Team members can use work items to define work to be accomplished for a project
                                    and track progress. </p>
                            </td>
                            <td>
                                <ul>
                                    <li>
                                        <p><span sdata="link"><a href="WorkItemsandWorkflowGovDev.html">Work Items and Workflow
                                            (GovDev)</a></span> </p>
                                    </li>
                                </ul>
                            </td>
                        </tr>
                        <tr>
                            <td>
                                <p><span class="label">Support team communications</span>. Team members can use the
                                    project portal to save and retrieve documents, view reports, exchange information
                                    by posting messages, and use other collaborative features in SharePoint Products,
                                    such as calendars, lists, wikis, and blogs.</p>
                            </td>
                            <td>
                                <ul>
                                    <li>
                                        <p>Pages on the Microsoft Web site:</p>
                                        <ul>
                                            <li>
                                                <p><a href="http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=165061">Create a blog</a></p>
                                            </li>
                                            <li>
                                                <p><a href="http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=165062">Demo: Boost teamwork with
                                                    a wiki</a></p>
                                            </li>
                                        </ul>
                                    </li>
                                    <li>
                                        <p><span sdata="link"><a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/644ee4b7-3653-4943-9809-3d14d4d79c48">
                                            Access a Team Project Portal and Process Guidance</a></span> </p>
                                    </li>
                                </ul>
                            </td>
                        </tr>
                        <tr>
                            <td>
                                <p><span class="label">Share documents and files</span>. By using their team project
                                    portal, team members can upload files that are maintained under version control,
                                    attach files, and insert links to Web sites in any type of work item.</p>
                            </td>
                            <td>
                                <ul>
                                    <li>
                                        <p><span sdata="link"><a href="Attachments.html">Attachments</a></span> </p>
                                    </li>
                                    <li>
                                        <p><span sdata="link"><a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/6e0b5e3f-4217-41c6-bf25-f5e9f2621b26">
                                            Add or Delete a Hyperlink in a Work Item</a></span> </p>
                                    </li>
                                </ul>
                            </td>
                        </tr>
                        <tr>
                            <td>
                                <p><span class="label">Receive e-mail notifications when work changes</span>. Alerts
                                    are e-mail notifications that Team Foundation sends when some event occurs, such
                                    as the status of a work item or a build changes, a check-in occurs, or a build is
                                    completed. Team members can configure when alerts are sent and to whom they are
                                    sent.</p>
                            </td>
                            <td>
                                <ul>
                                    <li>
                                        <p><span sdata="link"><a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/2e5c8ae2-407d-4c13-a64c-fddf2e563ff7">
                                            Setting Alerts</a></span> </p>
                                    </li>
                                </ul>
                            </td>
                        </tr>
                        <tr>
                            <td>
                                <p><span class="label">Find and share frequently used lists of work items</span>. Team
                                    members can quickly access active work items by using the default team queries.
                                    Queries find work items that match a specific set of criteria and are useful for
                                    finding the current status on work items. For example, a query could find all bug
                                    work items with a priority of 1 or all task work items that are assigned to the
                                    Web development team.</p>
                                <p>Also, team members can create and share individual queries and additional team queries
                                    through e-mail or the team project portal.</p>
                            </td>
                            <td>
                                <ul>
                                    <li>
                                        <p><span sdata="link"><a href="TeamQueriesGovDev.html">Team Queries (GovDev)</a></span> 
                                        </p>
                                    </li>
                                    <li>
                                        <p><span sdata="link"><a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/a48f7763-96bd-4558-8f1c-7e8aa5cebe55">
                                            Sharing Work Items and Queries with Team Members</mshelp:link></span> </p>
                                    </li>
                                </ul>
                            </td>
                        </tr>
                        <tr>
                            <td>
                                <p><span class="label">Set access permissions to sensitive data or resources</span>.
                                    Project administrators can restrict which team members can view or modify work items,
                                    team queries, reports, or dashboards. Permissions to view or modify an artifact
                                    are granted to team members, either individually or by role.</p>
                            </td>
                            <td>
                                <ul>
                                    <li>
                                        <p><span sdata="link"><a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/30493f4c-d3e6-42f0-bca2-2ad749246944">
                                            Configuring Users, Groups, and Permissions</a></span> </p>
                                    </li>
                                    <li>
                                        <p><span sdata="link"><a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/682f0eb0-462d-41e2-b6a2-41949d1b90fb">
                                            Organize and Set Permissions on Work Item Queries</a></span> </p>
                                    </li>
                                </ul>
                            </td>
                        </tr>
                        <tr>
                            <td>
                                <p><span class="label">Educate new team members about team processes</span>. Work items,
                                    dashboards, and reports in Reporting Services all provide links to process guidance
                                    for each of these kinds of artifacts. If you add or customize one of these artifacts,
                                    you can provide links to your own hosted process guidance. </p>
                            </td>
                            <td>
                                <ul>
                                    <li>
                                        <p><span sdata="link"><a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/63eae10a-b4d6-4ef5-93fd-270d20a8a2cf">
                                            Providing Process Guidance to Your Team</a></span> </p>
                                    </li>
                                </ul>
                            </td>
                        </tr>
                        <tr>
                            <td>
                                <p><span class="label">Track the status of work items, and generate reports by using
                                    queries</span>. Team members can generate a list of work items by using simple or
                                    complex queries. </p>
                                <p>You can send the details about a particular work item, a list of work items, or a
                                    work item query by e-mail to team members, clients, or other interested people.
                                    Also, you can create hyperlinks to these items that recipients can open, view, save,
                                    and modify if they have the necessary access and permission in Visual Studio Team
                                    Foundation Server. </p>
                            </td>
                            <td>
                                <ul>
                                    <li>
                                        <p><span sdata="link"><a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/c9b6d41c-47ce-4a29-8a1c-ba44d8c4809a">
                                            Finding Bugs, Tasks, and Other Work Items</mshelp:link></span> </p>
                                    </li>
                                    <li>
                                        <p><span sdata="link"><a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/814c2dca-cf8f-44bf-bba1-a5d8e293fc05">
                                            Query Fields, Operators, Values, and Variables</mshelp:link></span> </p>
                                    </li>
                                    <li>
                                        <p><span sdata="link"><a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/a48f7763-96bd-4558-8f1c-7e8aa5cebe55">
                                            Sharing Work Items and Queries with Team Members</mshelp:link></span> </p>
                                    </li>
                                </ul>
                            </td>
                        </tr>
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                            </th>
                            <th>
                                <p>Related topics</p>
                            </th>
                        </tr>
                        <tr>
                            <td>
                                <p><span class="label">Track the implementation of use cases and other work items
                                    </span>. Team members can create links from work items to changesets and source
                                    code that is under version control. These links support an audit trail that the
                                    team can use to understand issues that might arise later. </p>
                            </td>
                            <td>
                                <ul>
                                    <li>
                                        <p><span sdata="link"><a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/c1891ca6-0516-421c-a7ce-ca0e7e2ac3ac">
                                            Associate Work Items with Changesets</a></span> </p>
                                    </li>
                                    <li>
                                        <p><span sdata="link"><a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/ff40ae97-be28-4eb7-94a4-922d30fa3c19">
                                            View Details for Changesets</a></span> </p>
                                    </li>
                                </ul>
                            </td>
                        </tr>
                        <tr>
                            <td>
                                <p><span class="label">Create relationships to support integrated views of 
                                    requirements, use cases,
                                    tests, and backlog items</span>. Team members can link requirements to use 
                                    cases, use cases to the test
                                    cases that test them and bugs that affect them. This practice helps product owners
                                    determine the test case readiness for any use case and the overall number of bugs
                                    that have been logged against a use case. </p>
                            </td>
                            <td>
                                <ul>
                                    <li>
                                        <p><span sdata="link"><a href="RequirementsTraceabilityReportGovDev.html">
                                            Requirements Traceability Report
                                            (GovDev)</a></span> </p>
                                    </li>
                                    <li>
                                        <p><span sdata="link"><a href="TestCaseReadinessReport.html">Test Case Readiness Report
                                            </a></span> </p>
                                    </li>
                                </ul>
                            </td>
                        </tr>
                        <tr>
                            <td>
                                <p><span class="label">Monitor builds, code coverage, and code churn</span>. Team members
                                    can use build reports to track the quality and success of their builds over time.
                                </p>
                            </td>
                            <td>
                                <ul>
                                    <li>
                                        <p><span sdata="link"><a href="QualityDashboardGovDev.html">Quality Dashboard 
                                            (GovDev)
                                            </a></span> </p>
                                    </li>
                                    <li>
                                        <p><span sdata="link"><a href="BuildQualityIndicatorsReport.html">Build Quality Indicators
                                            Report</a></span> </p>
                                    </li>
                                    <li>
                                        <p><span sdata="link"><a href="BuildSuccessOverTimeReport.html">Build Success Over Time
                                            Report</a></span> </p>
                                    </li>
                                    <li>
                                        <p><span sdata="link"><a href="BuildSummaryReport.html">Build Summary Report</a></span> 
                                        </p>
                                    </li>
                                </ul>
                            </td>
                        </tr>
                        <tr>
                            <td>
                                <p><span class="label">Monitor test progress and test coverage</span>. Team members
                                    can use the test dashboard and test reports to track the progress of tests over
                                    time. </p>
                            </td>
                            <td>
                                <ul>
                                    <li>
                                        <p><span sdata="link"><a href="TestDashboardGovDev.html">Test Dashboard (GovDev)</a></span> 
                                        </p>
                                    </li>
                                    <li>
                                        <p><span sdata="link"><a href="TestCaseReadinessReport.html">Test Case Readiness Report
                                            </a></span> </p>
                                    </li>
                                    <li>
                                        <p><span sdata="link"><a href="TestPlanProgressReport.html">Test Plan Progress Report
                                            </a></span> </p>
                                    </li>
                                </ul>
                            </td>
                        </tr>
                        <tr>
                            <td>
                                <p><span class="label">Monitor progress and identify the volume, status, and effectiveness
                                    of test activities</span>. Teams that are responsible for testing the product can
                                    use the Test Management reports to monitor builds, test runs, test case authoring,
                                    and more. </p>
                            </td>
                            <td>
                                <ul>
                                    <li>
                                        <p><span sdata="link"><a href="TestManagementReports.html">Test Management Reports</a>
                                        </span> </p>
                                    </li>
                                    <li>
                                        <p><span sdata="link"><a href="BuildQualityExcelReport.html">Build Quality Excel Report
                                            </a></span> </p>
                                    </li>
                                    <li>
                                        <p><span sdata="link"><a href="TestTeamProductivityExcelReport.html">Test Team Productivity
                                            Excel Report</a></span> </p>
                                    </li>
                                    <li>
                                        <p><span sdata="link"><a href="TestTeamProgressExcelReport.html">Test Team Progress
                                            Excel Report</a></span> </p>
                                    </li>
                                    <li>
                                        <p><span sdata="link"><a href="TestingGapsExcelReportGovDev.html">Testing Gaps Excel
                                            Report (GovDev)</a></span> </p>
                                    </li>
                                </ul>
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                                <p><span class="label">Create or customize types of work items, types of links, categories,
                                    and other artifacts</span>. Project administrators can create or customize a type
                                    of work item, a type of link, or a work item category to meet their team's requirements
                                    for tracking a project. </p>
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                            <td>
                                <ul>
                                    <li>
                                        <p><span sdata="link"><a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/558d9b2a-b71a-4f26-8ac1-a0fde70b727d">
                                            Customizing Project Tracking Data, Forms, Workflow, and Other Objects</mshelp:link>
                                            </span> </p>
                                    </li>
                                    <li>
                                        <p><span sdata="link"><a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/0d0d51f7-b8d0-4e5d-82b9-766ee12690ba">
                                            Customizing How Work Items are Related through Link Types</a></span> </p>
                                    </li>
                                    <li>
                                        <p><span sdata="link"><a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/2fc6c411-89a9-4af5-8dd3-b2d4c2ecf540">
                                            Grouping Work Item Types into Categories</a></span> </p>
                                    </li>
                                </ul>
                            </td>
                        </tr>
                        <tr>
                            <td>
                                <p><span class="label">Add or customize data fields, work item forms, and workflow</span>.  
                                    Project administrators can add or modify the data fields that track work item
                                    information, in addition to modifying the form and the workflow for a type of work
                                    item.</p>
                            </td>
                            <td>
                                <ul>
                                    <li>
                                        <p><span sdata="link"><a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/e8f5efb8-f98d-43ac-a347-a52371f20c21">
                                            Customizing and Using Work Item Fields</a></span> </p>
                                    </li>
                                    <li>
                                        <p><span sdata="link"><a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/ac0c3aa2-dfc3-4737-aeff-fe8923bd5ce5">
                                            Defining and Customizing Work Item Workflow</a></span> </p>
                                    </li>
                                    <li>
                                        <p><span sdata="link"><a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/1454e50d-b39f-4670-b0b7-6e77b742ac85">
                                            Designing and Customizing a Work Item Form</a></span> </p>
                                    </li>
                                </ul>
                            </td>
                        </tr>
                        <tr>
                            <td>
                                <p><span class="label">Customize dashboards</span>. Dashboards comprise one or more
                                    Web parts, with each part being fully customizable. Each team member can customize
                                    their My Dashboard to support their individual needs and other dashboards for themselves
                                    or for use by the team. </p>
                            </td>
                            <td>
                                <p></p>
                            </td>
                        </tr>
                        <tr>
                            <td>
                                <p><span class="label">Generate ad-hoc reports</span>. Team members can create, share,
                                    and manage Excel reports. After you create a report that shows data for your team
                                    project in Office Excel, you can upload the report to your team's project portal.
                                </p>
                            </td>
                            <td>
                                <ul>
                                    <li>
                                        <p><span sdata="link"><a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/ae021d09-18d9-4fb0-bc06-fd6667a0b122">
                                            Create a Report in Microsoft Excel for Visual Studio ALM</mshelp:link></span> 
                                        </p>
                                    </li>
                                    <li>
                                        <p><span sdata="link"><a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/0e1e3343-434b-4e54-8c0e-d75df296e646">
                                            Edit a Report in Microsoft Excel for Visual Studio ALM</mshelp:link></span> </p>
                                    </li>
                                    <li>
                                        <p><span sdata="link"><a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/a606b12a-ac2e-4a02-a8b0-56f18c3dcc82">
                                            Upload and Refresh Excel Reports in the Team Project Portal for Visual Studio ALM
                                            </a></span> </p>
                                    </li>
                                </ul>
                            </td>
                        </tr>
                        <tr>
                            <td>
                                <p><span class="label">View, organize, and configure reports</span>. Project administrators
                                    can create and publish reports in SQL Server Report Designer and then use Report
                                    Manager to view, organize, and configure those reports. By using Report Manager,
                                    a project administrator can organize related reports into folders, adjust parameters
                                    and data sources, and schedule automated reports.</p>
                            </td>
                            <td>
                                <ul>
                                    <li>
                                        <p><span sdata="link"><a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/f382806c-9509-45bf-b175-51a2c853621a">
                                            View, Organize, and Configure Reports Using Report Manager for Visual Studio ALM</mshelp:link>
                                            </span> </p>
                                    </li>
                                </ul>
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